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Single Idea 20676
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
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Full Idea
We study history not to know the future but to widen our horizons, to understand that our present situation is neither natural nor inevitable, and the we consequently have many more possibilities before us than we can imagine.
Gist of Idea
History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities
Source
Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens: brief history of humankind [2014], 13 'Hindsight')
Book Ref
Harari,Yuval Noah: 'Sapiens: a brief history of Humankind' [Vintage 2014], p.269
A Reaction
On the whole winners forget history, and losers are branded through and through with it. If you don't know history, you can never understand the latter group.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[ideas about the study and teaching of history]:
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1866
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It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years
[Anon (Par)]
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19593
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Persons are shaped by a life history; splendid persons are shaped by world history
[Novalis]
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23270
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We should all agree that there is reason in history
[Hegel]
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21987
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History is the progress of the consciousness of freedom
[Hegel]
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5279
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Human history must always be studied in relation to industry and exchange
[Marx/Engels]
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5286
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Most historians are trapped in the illusions of their own epoch
[Marx/Engels]
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5301
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The history of all existing society is the history of class struggles
[Marx/Engels]
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20261
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History does not concern what really happened, but supposed events, which have all the influence
[Nietzsche]
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24095
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Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp
[Nietzsche]
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24128
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After history following God, or a people, or an idea, we now see it in terms of animals
[Nietzsche]
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14883
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We should evaluate the past morally
[Nietzsche]
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23873
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Dividing history books into separate chapters is disastrous
[Weil]
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19605
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Despite endless suggestions, no one has found a goal for history
[Cioran]
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19637
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History is wonderfully devoid of meaning
[Cioran]
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15039
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History lacks 'meaning', but it can be analysed in terms of its struggles
[Foucault]
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7979
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
[Baudrillard]
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22819
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In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical
[Hösle]
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20675
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The more you know about history, the harder it becomes to explain
[Harari]
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20676
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History teaches us that the present was not inevitable, and shows us the possibilities
[Harari]
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